Using a Screwdriver

[Mick in Dubbo]

We sure are. They don't call Australia "the lucky country" for nothing. Not only did we dodge the GFC bullet (government debt was actually 40 billion in the black when it hit), but we have the choice of 2 valuable type of detecting that can be done. I have actually met folks that have found enough with both types of detecting, to give them a wage. Most that do that though are gold hunters. (Not many though).
When I bought my SE Explorer (second hand) from the detecting shop over in Mudgee (80 miles away) while there, a local brought in a gold nugget that a chook dug up in the chook yard in his back yard in the gold town of Gulgong ( 20 miles north of Mudgee and 60 miles south east of Dubbo) the main street of Gulgong was a gold field when it was established and it was featured on our first $10 note. The gold nugget was weighed in the shop at 9.6 ounces. Now that's what I call lucky!
Mick Evans.

 

[ajrobbs]

I'm heading to Gulgong Mick, got to be loads of chook yards there! Aaron.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Have fun there and take your camera. It is quite a pitureque place with many classic looking buildings. If you have an original $1o bill, then you can have fun spotting the buildings that are on it.
Mick Evans.
P.S. I hope you are not going to gate crash a hens party.

 

[Kiwi]

Hi Mick, Is Gulgong still on the $10 note ? I used to go (in the late 70's) fox hunting with a couple of German guys from Sydney, Klaus bought a small property out there, think it must have been about 2 acres, we went into Gugong a couple of times, bought myself a Tee shirt that had a picture of the $10 note on it

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

No. They switched to a plastic bank note about 20 years ago. A bit of a shame, but the plastic notes last a lot longer.
Mick Evans.